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Tuesday, 14 June 2016

Banging around in Bavaria

On Sunday 12/6/16 my local group pulled together to play a simply megagame of Blucher. We only had 6 hours of play which included setting up, explaining the basics of the rules to 10 out of 14 players who had never played Blucher before and giving of orders to corps commanders by the two CiC's. We played a battle on a front of some 15 kilometers spread over 3 6x4 tables. 6 French corps including the guard faced off against 6 Austrian corps. The game was an absolute blast. We had massive casualties but only in the north did any corps break .

In the North the Austrians tried to cover too great a frontage and were blasted away and pursued from the table but too late in the day to move south onto the other table.
In the centre the two sides bled each other dry but neither could really take the villages required for victory but the Austrians were heard to give a sigh of relief when dusk fell. The number of brigades on 2 or 3 elan was unbelieveable.
The south turned out to be a real test of wills with two Austrian corps facing off initially against 2 French corps. It was this area that held 7 out of 14 victory points and both sides had set their sights on taking them. The french later threw in the guard while in the late afternoon the Austrians committed their grenadier/heavy cavalry corps here as well. Very exciting.

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I'm a happily retired veteran wargamer. We have lived here in Cataluña for some 30 odd years. I seldom have live opponents and am quite happy to game solo in all and every period or scale that takes my fancy